Thursday, November 16, 2006

This is getting ridiculous

A casual observer might remark thusly: "Gee, that Katharine girl sure does sleep a lot."

This might be true sometimes, but be assured, observer, that I get little rest despite all that sleeping.

For example, last night, after tossing and turning for a respectable period of time, I dreamt about the headless horseman in at least 5 incarnations, was nearly murdered by several of my closest friends, watched a finalist from the 2nd season of America's Next Top Model get dismembered several times in rapid succession, witnessed a man take a sledgehammer to his politically dissident wife's skull, AND my unicorn was slow, meaning that I personally died once, meaning that I woke up at least once, though the actual number of rude awakenings amounted to 3 or 4, and each time I went back to sleep to experience some other gruesome snuffings. I've never had so many nightmares in one night, especially since I'm not predisposed to nightmares. Actually, I can't even think of why, of all things, I dreamt of beheadings and labyrinthine houses, since before I dozed off I was primarily thinking about wine, wine parties, and job hunting.

Granted, I do have 7 copies of Sleepy Hollow sitting somewhere in my living room, but I really wasn't thinking about them at all. There was a thing on the news earlier in the evening about a girl who was brutally murdered with a butcher knife, but that didn't really linger as much as you'd expect for the seed of such a gorey clutch of nightmares. So... I dunno.

One interesting thing that did come out of all this, is that I also got to watch full-contact speed chess, which was pretty awesome.

Aaaagh, I'm so tiiiired!!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The wine might have caused the Cask of Amontillado-like dreams. Labrynths...death? I dunno. Sorry you're sleeping so yucky.